’TWIXT MONTAGUES AND CAPULETS, A GENTLEMAN – IN VERONA

 

 

For Viviana

 

 

A city

full of echoes,

but, for me, not Italian –

all Shakespearean echoes …

 

Your skin, so white,

so soft, was Juliet’s skin.

Your eyes were hers.

Your tender kiss a mere caress,

just like your words,

sparkles in the darkness.

 

There followed no

enchanted evening, but only

an empty, lonely train,

going – perforce – the opposite way,

all risk – perchance – thus

neatly avoided!

 

 

 

You can watch on Facebook the video version of this poem: 


http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150154573852549

 

 

“Sigh No More, Ladies” – A very delicate

revisiting of this Shakespearean classic:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNnrv0CGzU&feature=autofb

 

 

DIRE STRAITS in their  “Romeo and Juliet”:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9MzrirPrCI

 

 

 

Copyright © 2011 Guido Comin – Belluno, Italy. All rights reserved.

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